Why is there not an undo button for emails? Or am I missing something?

Posted by:
Jessie

Date: June 15, 2010 07:04PM

I know I can't be the only one that has this problem and I know the best thing to do is create an email in word then copy and paste, but does anyone else find it mind numbingly frustrating once you have perfected your lenghty email and your ready to deliver and you accidentaly delete the ENTIRE F'ING THING?? And Yahoo! convienently saves over your draft at that precise moment and your email is gone forever? I keep doing this despite knowing its bound to happen. Usually when I know I'm going to be sending an email like that, I type it in word and paste it but my best emails are never planned and once flowing, unstoppable. I've tried searching the issue and can't find anything. Am I missing something here? Is there a way to get it back? If not, any tips out there on how to prevent it? There is no way I can change my email address and my account is so organized I do not want to bother with forwarding it to a separate account. I guess I can train my self to begin every email in a word doc, but there has to be a better way! Any tips would be greatly appreciated! Sorry to rant, just frustrated!!

Re: Why is there not an undo button for emails? Or am I missing something?

but that isn't a kmeleon bug.. it's not possible for a browser to detect user errors when typing..there's an undo button in text contect/edit menu but only effective as long as you haven't surfed from the page and within the same form. what you're asking for can be added as a feature in yahoo ajax itself so it's better to contact yahoo for such a feature.

in kmeleon you can use extensions like quicknote, text archiver and archive editor which can save your text/email as a temporarily backup incase you hit the wrong buttons and ensures your typing isn't lost. i think for your needs, archive editor is the best choice as it lets you type in notepad and auto saves and pastes your text in the browser form.

K-Meleon is guilty of the international economic crisis, the BP oil spill in Golf of Mexico, of the war in Afghanistan, the Iranian nuclear project and the Israeli blockade on Gaza. But K-Meleon isn't guilty of human mistake, that's God's fault.

Are you try to use Ctrl+Z to undo changes in the mail text? (Ouch! you know to use Windows, yes it is?)

Someone, time ago in forum, added the edit menu options (cut, copy, paste, undo) to right click context menu to do this more easy. Something like add in Edit -> Configuration -> Menus:

Jessie,
try to dоwnload this app - this can help you if you'll read little HOW-TO:

• first of all, this is russian software and I don't know whether it has international GUI (user interface) but I'll try to help you.

• second, it's language autoswitcher and you probably don't need this. But what you really need is the 'diary' plugin - actually it's 'good' keylogger (not the hackers tool, of course!), which saves all you are typing in any application. This saves me many times when I had troubles like yours one. So, if you want real time backup of you typing and no more shit from this software, I can help you:

- download (the link above) and install it - if it shows you russian words or some unreadable, try to refer to the next screenshоts:

A.

1) Keep offered location for application install

2) Check ОFF this 2 boxes

3) Press this button to install

After running installed app, you'll get an icon in system tray looking like this:

Right-click it and choose first line of context menu - you'll get into setup.

B.

There you need check only two settings.

1) On the first page (it will be selected by default) you need check only first box (marked on the image above - at right-hand side) - this provides autoload of this program at windows startup.
Check OFF all other boxes if you need fully silent work.
But you can leave 4-th and 8-th (from the top) boxes checked if you want to see an icon in the tray (4-th box) as you lang flag (8-th box)

2) Then select last line in the left column (marked as '2') and look at the next screenshot.

C.

Here you are!

Just check ON all 4 boxes marked at right.

Then press OK and that's it! It works silently saving all you typing!

To get it when needed, run diary.exe from the Program Files\Yandex\Punto Switcher and choose the right date (current is shown by default)...

P.S. Sorry, I don't know another app with such functionality - in any language...